#prighozhin — Public Fediverse posts
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Look who showed up in Africa.
#wagner #wagnerpmc #prighozhin -
Pffffffffffffffffffffft 💨💨
#Prighozhin #Wagner #Putin #Prigozhin
Alberne Telenovela.
Gut, dass ich die Story und die minütlichen „Updates“ ignoriert habe.Sorry, aber das Ganze wird wohl gar nichts am Krieg ändern.
Ich spüre aber bei manchen die Hoffnung, dass sich das Thema durch innere Unruhen in 🇷🇺 von alleine lösen wird - und das ärgert mich. -
Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.
I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.
#Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.
Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.
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Justice in Russia:
Demonstrating by holding a blank piece of paper:
Jail time.
Threatening to kill the Minister of Defence and overthrow the government:
No biggie — have a trip to Belarus.
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“What happened to Yevgeny?”
“He went to live on a farm in Belarus with some old friends.”
“Can we go visit some time?”
“...We’ll see.”
#Prighozhin #WagnerCoup #WagnerRebellion #Russia #RussiaCoup -
In a very real sense, the Russian Army and Wagner are now in something akin to the kind of economic / psychological / social experiment you might find on a college campus, where the average logical best play is to stay united and work together as a team, but in practical terms, but the system is rigged towards a predilection to profit by screwing thy neighbor ASAP.
The question is: what does #Prighozhin - and the Russian Armed Forces - have to lose by doing so.